Stories My software engineering journey from home sweet home to a frozen planet (part 2) The story of a college student from the Hungarian countryside who ended up in Helsinki as an iOS engineer I was 21 years old when I first moved out from my parents' house in the Hungarian countryside, to spend 4 months in Finland via the ERASMUS programme. At that
Stories My software engineering journey from home sweet home to a frozen planet (part 1) The story of a college student from the Hungarian countryside who ended up in Helsinki as an iOS engineer I moved out of my parents' house first time at the age of 21, three years ago. Most of my friends made this move at 18, right after graduation, trading
Stories What Does a Product Manager Really Do? Software engineers architect systems, code and configure the infrastructure. Marketers put together web pages, information leaflets and create press releases, etc. Project managers put together project plans and check in with engineers. They also start asking "is it done yet?" as the deadline approaches. But what does a
Stories From Zero to the Ray Wenderlich Team - in 3 Years It's safe to say I was a late starter with software development. At high school, I had very little interest in software. Later, in college, I chose to enroll in electrical engineering over computer science. I started to code as a hobby during my college years, and came
Stories How I rode the Hungarian social network app goldrush wave (while it lasted) Around 2009, the largest social network in Hungary was not (yet) Facebook, but a site called iWiW [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IWiW]. At its peak, it had 4.5M active Hungarian users (from the total population of 10M in Hungary). When iWiW announced the opening of its app platform
Stories My Code (Accidentally) Ended Up Running on an Oil Rig. These are the 5 Things I Learned. In 2010 I built one of the most advanced charting libraries available for Windows, Visiblox [https://www.visiblox.com/blog?page=17] [1]. Originally I was pretty certain it would mostly be finance companies using this component in their applications. That was until I found out that one of the
